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Why Vaccine Stocks Rallied This Week: This week's detection of avian bird flu in a second U.S. citizen are spurring fears of an outbreak
AOL via Motley Fool ^ | 05/24/2024 | BILLY DUBERSTEIN

Posted on 05/24/2024 9:15:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind

Shares of vaccine stocks Moderna (NASDAQ: MRNA), Novavax (NASDAQ: NVAX), and BioNTech SE (NASDAQ: BNTX) rallied this week, appreciating 23.4%, 16.4%, and 9.3%, respectively, through Thursday trading, according to data from S&P Global Market Intelligence.

While these three stocks gained notoriety back in 2020 during the COVID-19 pandemic, it appears this week's detection of avian bird flu in a second U.S. citizen and the first-ever detection of avian flu in a human in Australia are spurring fears of an outbreak and thus a possible boon for companies that can quickly produce a bird flu vaccine.

Bird flu detected in Michigan and Australia in the first detections since March

A new avian flu, H5N1, was detected in cattle back in March, with one worker in Texas coming down with associated conjunctivitis at that time. But on Wednesday this week, a second U.S. dairy worker in Michigan tested positive for the avian flu as well. That same day, an Australian dairy worker also tested positive for avian flu, marking the first-ever human case of avian flu in that country.

The discoveries spurred fears of an outbreak. That same day, the Assistant Secretary of Preparedness and Response at the Department of Health and Human Services, Dawn O'Connell, noted that Moderna and Pfizer (NYSE: PFE), which partnered with BioNTech on the COVID-19 mRNA vaccine, were in talks over a potential mRNA vaccine program for the new avian flu.

Unlike the COVID-19 pandemic, when the U.S. government subsidized private companies to make the COVID-19 vaccine, the government actually has a stockpile of H5N1 virus candidates that could be used to make vaccines. If used, the resulting shots would actually be a government vaccine, although the government would hire private companies to help manufacture the drug.

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TOPICS: Business/Economy; Health/Medicine; Science; Society
KEYWORDS: 202405; australia; avianflu; avianinfluenza; birdflu; cattle; dairy; h5n1; hpai; michigan; modern; moderna; mrnavaccine; pfizer; texas; vaccine

1 posted on 05/24/2024 9:15:41 PM PDT by SeekAndFind
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To: SeekAndFind

The sheeple are being set up again. Maybe not as many will buy into the hysterics, but enough will to make things miserable for many. And watch out for the politically-driven “health” mandates.


2 posted on 05/24/2024 9:18:03 PM PDT by CatOwner (Don't expect anyone, even conservatives, to have your back when the SHTF in 2021 and beyond.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Bird Flu ——> mail out ballots


3 posted on 05/24/2024 9:25:37 PM PDT by Ken Regis (I concur )
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To: Ken Regis

😉 I second that!

If we don’t catch their bioweapon virals for profit, they will infect us through the corporate trick-food supply.

Follywood might fall for the new tactical vax, but since the increase is in stock, possibly Big Pharma is shipping it off-shore. Idk.🤔


4 posted on 05/24/2024 10:03:11 PM PDT by RitaOK (Viva Christo Rey. For Greater Glory. HIS. )
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To: SeekAndFind

Big Pharma Exec: Oooooooo. I’m getting goosepimples and a tingling all over feeling like I get when my portfolio triples in value.🤤


5 posted on 05/24/2024 10:40:40 PM PDT by frank ballenger (There's a battle outside and it's raging. It'll soon shake your windows and rattle your walls.)
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To: SeekAndFind

Everything I see from Motley Fool seems to be solid liberal.


6 posted on 05/24/2024 11:19:33 PM PDT by citizen (Put all LBQTwhatever programming on a new subscription service: PERV-TThose look good)
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To: SeekAndFind

TWO cases in how long out of 300,000 000 million and some people and it’s an *outbreak*?

The only thing there is an outbreak of here is fear porn and tyranny.


7 posted on 05/25/2024 12:07:44 AM PDT by metmom (He who testifies to these things says, “Surely I am coming soon.” Amen. Come, Lord Jesus…)
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To: SeekAndFind

As someone else here said...” My bird doesn’t need vaccinating”.


8 posted on 05/25/2024 5:16:27 AM PDT by moovova ("The NEXT ELECTION is the most important election of our lifetimes!“ LOL...)
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Any more most folks know someone, are related to someone, of have heard of someone who has died or been disabled by the WuFlu vaxx. Are they all going to rush to get the New Vax? All of these things being pushed by the government are loaded with stuff that is NOT anti the disease of the day but are experimental or designed for control purposes or just plain depopulation.


9 posted on 05/25/2024 5:32:48 AM PDT by arthurus ( covfefe Mc)
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The Election Variant!


10 posted on 05/25/2024 6:41:32 AM PDT by Eagles6 (Welcome to the Matrix . Orwell's "1984" was a warning, not an instruction manual. )
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Cattle will be destroyed and buried by government order and replaced by bugs.


11 posted on 05/25/2024 6:52:36 AM PDT by dynachrome ("God grant I don't outlive my wits.")
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